This is the video to My Last Serenade by Killswitch Engage. I like it for various reasons. This video was the last video made before the lead vocalist was replaced by Howard Jones. I also like it because of its contents. Not only is it the last glimpse of Jesse Leach before he left the band, but as a songwriter and the main source of inspiration for the band this meant the video came out the way it did.
The video is based around a woman wearing a white dress, though she first appears as just a black figure, in a pure white room (so its space is inconceivable without being there), which is littered with red furniture. The video mainly switches between the band playing in a totally black room with red columns, and the woman looking in. The idea behind this is that the pure white room has a small spinning box of some sort, which, when the girl looks inside, sees the band playing.
This gives an idea of playing to an audience, and ties in with the idea of where men used to serenade to women on a balcony above, looking down on them. The difference here is that the size difference is made as a metaphor alluding to the importance of the other person, and that they are playing to her. The room they are in is very much like a music box serenading the girl, which ties in with the song name. Instead of trying to go for a video which more literally follows the lyrics, it goes for the typical metal video, with lipsynced performance with some relevance to the song title.
I believe that if I were to apply these principals, my video would not be very conventional, due to the fact I do not plan on choosing a song from the Metal Genre for my final project, this being due to various reasons, ranging from the instruments going into it, to funding to make it look good.
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